working way to update your scheduled PTO

app/controllers/schedule_controller.rb

@@ -1,7 +1,38 @@
 class ScheduleController < ApplicationController
   def create
+    message = false
+    
+      if params[:schedule][:event_type] == "pto"
+        sched = Schedule.new(params[:schedule])
+        sched.date_begin, sched.date_end = format_schedule_date(params[:date_range1])
+        sched.user_id = current_user.user_id
+        a = sched.date_end
+        if sched.save
+          message = true
+        end
+      end
+      
     respond_to do |format|
-      format.json {render :json => {:msg => "success"}}
+      format.json {render :json => {:msg => message ? "success" : "failure" }}
     end
   end
+  
+  private
+  
+  # Returns a two part array consisting of dates
+  # First value is the begin date and the second is the end date
+  def format_schedule_date(date_array)
+   begin
+     vals = []
+     return vals if date_array.empty?
+     date_array.split('-').each do |s|
+       date = Date.strptime(s.strip, '%m/%d/%Y')
+       vals <<(date)
+     end
+   rescue ArgumentError  
+     return []
+   end
+     return vals
+  end
+    
 end

app/models/schedule.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 class Schedule < ActiveRecord::Base
   attr_accessible :date_begin, :date_end, :event_desc, :event_name, :event_type, :user_id
   belongs_to :paid_time_off
+  
+  validates_presence_of :date_begin, :date_end
 end

app/views/paid_time_off/index.html.erb

@@ -1,5 +1,29 @@
 <div class="dashboard-wrapper">
 	<div class="main-container">
+		<div class="row-fluid">
+			<div class="span12">
+				<div id="success" style="display: none;" class="alert alert-block alert-success fade in">
+		            <h4 class="alert-heading">
+		              Success!
+		            </h4>
+		            <p>
+		              Information successfully updated.
+		            </p>
+		          </div>
+			</div>
+		</div>	
+		<div class="row-fluid">
+			<div class="span12">
+				<div id="failure" style="display: none;" class="alert alert-block alert-error fade in">
+                    <h4 class="alert-heading">
+                      Error!
+                    </h4>
+                    <p>
+                      Failed to update.
+                    </p>
+                  </div>
+			</div>
+		</div>
 		<!-- Begin DP-->
 		<div class="row-fluid">
 			<!-- begin cal -->
@@ -206,8 +230,11 @@ $("#cal_update_submit").click(function(event) {
 	  data: valuesToSubmit,
 	  type: "POST",
 	  success: function(response) {
+		if (response.msg == "failure") {
+		  $('#failure').show(500).delay(1500).fadeOut();
+		} else {
 		  $('#success').show(500).delay(1500).fadeOut();
-	    
+		}
 	  },
 	  error: function(event) {
 		$('#failure').show(500).delay(1500).fadeOut();